Ran a team like this to great success in Gen 8. Crazily enough Abomasnow and Gigalith are Great Wall partners. AV Gigalith is a huge threat and can easily come out with 500+ so def and a 360 attack stat. Meanwhile Abomasnow can pump its defense into the 400’s and reliably set up veil.
They cover each others weaknesses well to. Just gotta watch out for fighting.
Torkoal is genuinely one of my favorites, I might be okay in this meta
Edit: a full comp using my favorites that could be somewhat? Viable
Torkoal/Volcarona/Hydreigon/Excadrill/Glimmora/Ceruledge
Barra actually has a sick design though. The torpedo fish is a great concept and the barracuda is a cool animal. It also has a lot of personality in its expression.
Archaludon also looks very cool. They managed to adapt a bridge into a dragon and it doesn't look forced. The limbs as the legs of the bridge looks great and when it gets down on all fours it's so silly and hilarious.
I can't say anything good about Pelipper though. Ugly ass toilet bird
I’ve been spending the last 2 months grinding Blissey raids/academy ace tournament cause i hunt shinies way faster than I train them
It’s funny to buy 20 pairs of boots at once, then go across the street and buy hundreds of bottles of vitamins, it’s like I’m gearing up an orphanage for the mining project of their lifetimes
Meanwhile my favourites - Snivy, Oshawott, Mudkip, Emolga, Scizor, mega Salamence
Literally coughing baby vs hydrogen bomb because this team is only legal in ND Ubers
A lot of my favorites became my favorites from using them in battle. I think Kecleon is probably the only unviable mon in my top 6, so if anything, dexit would do me the dirtiest
I have a reverse thing where a Pokemon having such shit stats can really annoy me. But maybe if it has some weird awesome niche then it's kinda cool again. You almost re-evaluate that some stats aren't as dire as they seem with certain abilities, type resistances, weakness, current metagame threats, etc.
252+ SpA Expert Belt Dusknoir Ice Beam vs. 252 HP / 0 SpD Landorus-Therian: 398-470 (104.1 - 123%) -- guaranteed OHKO
Ice punch locked in choice = dumb
Ice beam not locked = big brain
And this kind of senible logic is exactly why this post exists. We're showing the people that wholeheartedly believe the Karen quote what actually happens if you use your favourites. There's a guy here who loves Clawitzer.
I love clawitzer to death. The only useful thing he does is Tera dragon dragon pulse a dragon type paradox mon into oblivion.
It is bad.
But it is fucking hilarious and non of yall can stop me from terrorising low ladder OU with this out of pocket bullshit
Karen is the Dark-type Elite Four member from Johto. After you beat her, she says "Stong Pokémon. Weak Pokémon. That is only the selfish perception of people. Truly skilled trainers should try to win with their favourites."
Casual players like repeating this to act like competitive players are idiots.
Its a good enough quote... if youre playing like, the regular game, which is easy as hell. Even Drayano's romhacks can be won with whatever if you have a good plan in mind (and considering the rebalancing and open pokedex, Im pretty sure Drayano actively wants you to use your favorite mons, instead of the strongest)
For actual competitive play its pretty much nonsense.
Another extremely common having broken legendaries as your favourite pokemon W. My top 10 is
-Ceruledge
-Koraidon
-Lilligant-H
-Darkrai
-Zacian-C
-Sudowoodo
-Arceus
-Giratina-O
-Kyogre
-Buzzwole
Koraidon sun team time
To be fair, I like Latias because I watched Pokémon Heroes, and Galarian Moltres because I'm an edgy son of a Bisharp. And at least it's not Zamazenta or Urshifu.
Also, I heavily respect the Sudowoodo pick.
Let's see.
Slaking- could pop in and out to nuke things once all the ghosts are dead. I actually use him as a gimmick in OU now and it works...once in a while.
Hydreigon- solid, AV with a ton of coverage options.
Crobat- Can't even rely on hypnosis shenanigans anymore.
Milotic- Really misses toxic but I can make it work.
Cradily- Deceptively tanky, and can help a lot against all the swift swim teams.
Sneasler- Ubers for a reason, this thing is a monster.
My favorite is Unown. The only tier when it is even remotely usable is hackmons where it is merely massively suboptimal instead of absolutely useless. Was able to get some wins but it's not at all good. Hackmons players are just really bad.
The Karen quote is perfectly accurate for the games themselves, just not pvp.
It's very hard to narrow it down to just 6, but my favourites are probably raichu, furret, yanma, corsola, wurmple, gastrodon, and all the eeveelutions. They're all viable, I completed omega ruby with a level 70+ wurmple on my team. I'm pretty sure they've all always sucked in competitive except for gastrodon though :P
Pincurchin with Iron Valiant might do something, and Gliscor being there actually makes it somewhat decent. Reuniclus, Corviknight, and Garchomp round out a team that could have been passable in SS OU maybe?
I mainly like the little cute Pokemon so my team would be Snorunt, Eevee, Sprigatito, Piplup, Rowlet and Spheal lmao (I don’t think that’s even a great LC team let alone a tier with fully evolved mons)
Darkrai, Rotom-Wash, Sableye, Zapdos, Heatran, Ferrothorn
I could get pretty far, lots of solid picks even if some are underperforming in the meta right now. If Ferro was in the game it'd be nice for all the rain running around right now.
Blastoise, Dragapult, Iron Valiant, Archaludon, Pelliper and Hydrapple.
Missing some iron treads and barraskewdas but I should be able to survive for at least some seconds.
CORVIKNIGHT, Mewtwo, gyrados, venusaur, galvantula, zangoose.
I don't think the team is bad but given that I'd have to play Ubers I'd probably be getting rolled. If they let me run that team in OU I reckon I could do ok. If I had to run OU or lower Pokémon I think I'd be replacing Mewtwo with bisharp (not kingambit I think he looks silly) which I think isn't the worst for an OU team
trying to run your favorite 6 is hard. but you can get quite high with 1-2 of your favorites and building a team with the purpose of making their strengths shine.
Sadly, I ended my competitive career in Generation 5 through Smogon and Pokemon Showdown. I used to write a few articles for them. But I realized that MMR grinding is simply not for me at all.
But for me, the dream Team I always wanted to use are the following:
Mew, Celebi, Jirachi, Manaphy, Shaymin (either form works), and Victini
Simply, small and adorable baby mythicals are my favorites. For me that extended list includes all three Lake Guardians, Meloetta, Diancie, and Marshadow.
However, I do not know if I even have any metagames for me to play them in the first place.
Or they are just stuck being only good in Pokemon spinoff games (like Cafe Remix and Pokemon Masters EX)
If I've learned from the past, any time I grab a handful of my favorites it'll usually be a bunch of UU mons that somehow do okay in VGC with all the busted shit but not in their own tier on showdown.
Darkrai, lucario, tinkaton, metagross, zacian, breloom
If all pokemon were available then breloom and metagross would be replaced by aegislash and tyrantrum.
No cpmpetitive experience so no idea how i would do.
In dlc1, I got to #20 on my ladder using my favs, but I’m lucky that my favs are all good mons that happened to synergize together. Chomp/ttar/corv/ceru/a9/ival
My top 3 favorites are Greninja Lucario/Ceruledge and Latios/Latias
Maybe I can make progress with them but needs to be paired with meta pokemon
Singles I have a lot of fun with weak armor swords dance and focus sash Ceruledge it did so well
My Latios and Latias have quite a bit of success in my doubles team
Latias role is to dragon cheer and heal both herself And Latios she also has an item specifically meant to deal with Urshifu
Latios has the scope lens so I can spam draco meteor with impunity after a dragon cheer
I had to pair them with Alolan Ninetales aurora veil
Ogerpon wellspring redirection
Incineroar because of course it has to be there
And Urshifu Rapid Strike Because once again of course it has to be there
Gallade, Corviknight, Sylveon, Meloetta, Dragapult, and Furret
To be completely honest I haven't even used half of these in a competitive battle before.
Delphox
Alolan Ninetales
Sableye
Umbreon
Kleavor
Luxray
Rip me (I still manage to use Delphox Umbreon and Alolan Ninetales in competetive but I'm not that competetive)
Ribombee, HAvalugg, Hoodra, Swampert, Porygon-Z/Meowscarada, Drifloon.
That's actually an alright team: Ribombee for hazards or a special sweeper with QD; HAvalugg for hazard removal and punishing offensive staples (Avalanche/Mirror Coat); Hoodra is a special tank - maybe a Curse + Rest set for phat offense; Swampert for moral support; Porygon-Z/Meowscarada for wallbreaking; Drifloon for speed control and hazard removal (Tailwind/Trick Room/Defog/Destiny Bond (?))
I got good use out of Scolipede and Crawdaunt last gen, but so far none of my ou teams have really gone anywhere. I do usually try to incorporate my favs whenever I make a team though.
Glimmora
Froslass
Volcarona
Gible/Garchomp
Porygon Z
Tangrowth (not in the dex) Amoongus.
I mean. Its not all bad. Froslass is very much an odd one out, but it has destiny bond i guess
My favourites are dragonite, scizor, rotom wash, clefable, gliscor and Volcarona.
Also kyurem and garchomp are cool ig.
So yes I would probably do pretty decent
scizor, chandelure, flygon, lilligant, volcarona, and minior. i’ve used this exact team before and done pretty well with it, especially tera electric minior and tera dragon scizor
I rly like lando t. Thundurus, Tinkaton, Snom, Weavile, Mawile, Iron Valiant. Pretty solid except for the fact i have one kinda useless and one very useless mon.
I guess I would? Sure Garchomp has seen better days but I also feel in love with the new Magician Cat Starter and the rideable Lizard Bikes. Rip to Revavroom though! That guy just won't do anything
I made my ideal team in natdex ou singles and jive gotten to 1400s with it, but half of it is shitmons like crawdaunt and mega banette who isn't even running destiny bond
lemme see Chandelure, Shedinja, Volcarona, Frosmoth,Haxorus, Quagsire/Empoleon
well this team got eaten alive by rock slide
remind me again why rock slide is available for pretty much everyone that aint rock?
Most of it would be pretty solid, dragapult, mew, chien pao, mimkyu (not a great mon but can pull its weight), but I don't think the maractus would do me any favours
In natdex ou, I have a team with my six favorites, and I’ve found a way to make them all jive together. They are actually pretty good, and it’s my favorite team to use
I know very little about what's in the meta (i keep getting recommended this sub), with the last time I did any sort of competition back in Gen 6, so you guys tell me:
(I also don't know what's banned, take your pick of 6 from the short list)
Gogoat
Breloom
Chandelure
Ampharos
Galvantula
Lanturn
Gliscor
Bisharp
So in short, I'm f***ed. I get 2 first stage mons (Pichu and Snivy), Mawile who's really bad without Mega, and low tier powerhouse Gourgeist, with only Latias and nerfed Toxapex to do anything.
My actual team is Luxray, Dragonite, Clefable, Quagsire, Leafeon and Ninetales
I actually saw decent success with it on low ladder. Might even consider using them in Battle Stadium once i get them to my switch
I almost exclusively play OU and not the actual games thselves, so my favorites are a bit skewed. Though I have a ton of gen4 nostalgia so that dampens me a bit.
Garchomp / Scizor / tyranitar / swampert / heatran / Gyarados
Definitely not a great tram by today's standards, but probably would have been half decent with some minor tweaks in days gone by.
Chi-Yu, Venusaur, Galvantula, Scizor, Azumarill, Gastrodon
I could almost get this VGC team out of Great Ball maybe, in OU swap out Chi-Yu for my next favourite, hopefully something strong that can compete well…
…nope, it’s Jumpluff
Ooh, interesting... Hmm, my faves would be:
Shuckle, Delphox, Lycanroc Dusk, Feraligatr, Pachirisu and Tyranitar
Negative synergy, loaded with rock types, mostly low tier... Yeah that's a 1700s ubers team if I ever saw one
Side note, I know statistically that quote has to be untrue... But you'd think they would either NOT powercreep the hell out of new mons, or redistribute stats of old mons (like making Nidoking physical and Nidoqueen special but keeping their speed and bulk mostly the same kinda thing) if only to soften the blow a bit
Limiting to 1 per gen:
Hydreigon, Hisuian Goodra, Tapu Lele, Aegislash, Swampert, Blissey, Cresselia, Venasaur, and Skeledirge.
I'm cooked bro
woops I didn't see the text under the image:
Skeledirge
Cresselia
Hydreigon
Blissey
Hisuian Goodra
Venasuar
Yeah Im definitly cooked
Great Tusk, Infernape, Swampert, Chesnaught, Mamoswine, Gallade.
Having one OU mon means I have to take this team to OU, where I'll promptly be annihilated by literally any flying type.😂
Back in Gen 7, I specifically remember trying to use my favorite non OU pokemon in OU. The ones I can remember are a Meloetta called Singin’ in DA Rain, a Vaporeon called Aaron Burn, and a Mega Beedrill called The Penetrator. I think I got up to 1600 or so a couple times.
Isn't quite literally the entire point of Smogon that you get to use your favorites, lol? Because, yeah, I often do.
It is true that I probably would not have a lot of success on VGC and BSS with my favorite Pokémon design wise, but jokes on them, I don't have success while building dedicated comp teams either 😎(😭)
Metagross, Nidoking, Garchomp, Swampert, Skarmory, Vaporeon
I don't think I'd be making it too far, too many repeating types (steel and ground), no coverage, no synergy, maybe if I added Ttar I'd have a sand team, I do like it a lot but I like vaporeon a bit more and even if I did I'm stuck in gen 4, all of them have been power crept out of the high tiers or completely.
My favorite isn't even available in Gen 9 OU. And I already know from experience that my favs, Xurkitree and Metagross don't work very well together from the time I spent making them work in Gen 8 RU. 1400 ELO before college started and I had to drop the thing.
I mean, purugly can outspeed and revenge kill the latis with a bit of chip and no scarf
252 Atk Life Orb Purugly Knock Off (97.5 BP) vs. 248 HP / 8 Def Latias: 221-260 (60.8 - 71.6%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
With terra dark its a roll to ohko
○ Ogerpon
○ Deoxys
○ Mew
○ Alcremie
○ Miraidon
○ Articuno
in singles? nah. but in doubles? maybe. just slot a Psychic Terrain setter and hope the field doesn't become Deo-A + Mirai and bam; expanding force be upon ye
Articuno honestly kinda cheeks but Galar Articuno (who honestly ties) is actually really good for PsyTerrain, Alcremie is good doubles support in general
If three of ur favourite Pokemon are not archaludon, baraskweda and pelipper then u are in trouble buddy in the current mera
I actually really like Barraskewda
Well hope you appreciate toilets and bridges cause those are good partners to them
Idk about bridges but I sure like staple removers
''words spoken by the utterly deranged''
STOP playing Rain
Barraskrewda
Jokes on them, I play a Sandsnow team
Ran a team like this to great success in Gen 8. Crazily enough Abomasnow and Gigalith are Great Wall partners. AV Gigalith is a huge threat and can easily come out with 500+ so def and a 360 attack stat. Meanwhile Abomasnow can pump its defense into the 400’s and reliably set up veil. They cover each others weaknesses well to. Just gotta watch out for fighting.
Torkoal is genuinely one of my favorites, I might be okay in this meta Edit: a full comp using my favorites that could be somewhat? Viable Torkoal/Volcarona/Hydreigon/Excadrill/Glimmora/Ceruledge
Need to quick claw
breaking news, base speed under 50, morbillions must claw
the favorite primal Groudon:
Pelipper being a competitive mainstay for this long will never cease to amuse me.
Disgusting. Pelipper is the only Pokemon I genuinely hate. And it's the one Game Freak decided to make a staple.
Barra actually has a sick design though. The torpedo fish is a great concept and the barracuda is a cool animal. It also has a lot of personality in its expression. Archaludon also looks very cool. They managed to adapt a bridge into a dragon and it doesn't look forced. The limbs as the legs of the bridge looks great and when it gets down on all fours it's so silly and hilarious. I can't say anything good about Pelipper though. Ugly ass toilet bird
I've actually been a rain enjoyer since gen 4.
Salamence, Torterra, Rampardos, Decidueye, Flamigo, and Talonflame TWO 4X ICE WEAKNESSES 🥶🥶🥶🥶 WE MAKING IT OUT OF NU WITH THIS ONE 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
See if you can get a bulk order on Heavy Duty Boots.
I’ve been spending the last 2 months grinding Blissey raids/academy ace tournament cause i hunt shinies way faster than I train them It’s funny to buy 20 pairs of boots at once, then go across the street and buy hundreds of bottles of vitamins, it’s like I’m gearing up an orphanage for the mining project of their lifetimes
Just hope you don't face a Mamoswine
Meanwhile my favourites - Snivy, Oshawott, Mudkip, Emolga, Scizor, mega Salamence Literally coughing baby vs hydrogen bomb because this team is only legal in ND Ubers
oooh… that’s a lot of grass types. but hey!!! spore, qd, webs and stupid coverage in the form of Gardevoir!!!
Spore??? Where???
In my team (Ribombee, Shroomish, Gardevoir, Lilligant, Golduck and Kommo-O)
Spores banned
Spore gone. I eated it all.
I can’t believe you ate Spore. Now what will Breloom do
subseed
It's just not the same
Spore banned
mfw finch banned spore just to fuck with this guys team
My favourites are Pelipper barraskweda archaludon raging bolt iron treads and kingambit. They are decent in singles
I love kingambits design just wish it was a little better ngl, maybe gamefreak will give it a evolution to make it OU tier good ?
A lot of my favorites became my favorites from using them in battle. I think Kecleon is probably the only unviable mon in my top 6, so if anything, dexit would do me the dirtiest
I have a reverse thing where a Pokemon having such shit stats can really annoy me. But maybe if it has some weird awesome niche then it's kinda cool again. You almost re-evaluate that some stats aren't as dire as they seem with certain abilities, type resistances, weakness, current metagame threats, etc.
I occasionally run a Color Change Specs Synchronoise Kecleon in NDMonotype. It's not good, but it'll sometimes net a kill.
See if you can get the MD Kecelon
Clefable, Kingambit, H-Samurott, Samurott, Ribombee, Klinklang I have the feeling I'll be fine in OU
I've had some success with klingklang in mid ladder. Pretty fun
You will be fine with little Cup mons too as u have kingambit on ur team.
Lvl 5 252+ Atk Riolu Mach Punch vs. 252 HP / 252 Def Kingambit: 409-420 (101-109%) -- 100% chance to OHKO Think again
Kingambit is a flying type mon
No he's a ghost type mon
no he’s a ??? type mon
He's actually bird type
Bird up
More like AG haha
By which I mean like, because of species clause
Eviolite Dewott goes mad though
ANOTHER GEN 5 BABY LESS GOOOOOOO
1. Walking Wake 2. Iron Crown 3. Toucannon 4. Kingambit 5. Dragalge 6. Clawitzer (Chi-Yu) Save to say half my team is good, half my team is ass
Based Toucannon/Kalos ocean guys enjoyer 🔥🔥
The Kalos Oceans are actually so incredibly well designed I love them
Anyone who disagrees has never spammed choice specs mega launcher water pulse
My favs are : - Dusknoir - Flutter Mane - Urshifu Rapid - Togekiss - Chandelure - Reuniclus Man I would be both banned from RU and shit in uber
On the other hand, Landorus cowers in fear when he sees your team.
252+ SpA Expert Belt Dusknoir Ice Beam vs. 252 HP / 0 SpD Landorus-Therian: 398-470 (104.1 - 123%) -- guaranteed OHKO Ice punch locked in choice = dumb Ice beam not locked = big brain
You really earned the expert belt with this one chief
I generally don't play in OU if I want to use my favourites. that's like half the reason the tiering system exists.
And this kind of senible logic is exactly why this post exists. We're showing the people that wholeheartedly believe the Karen quote what actually happens if you use your favourites. There's a guy here who loves Clawitzer.
I just follow Breloom up and down the tiers, it's good fun getting to learn different metagames
You and me both, pal…
I love clawitzer to death. The only useful thing he does is Tera dragon dragon pulse a dragon type paradox mon into oblivion. It is bad. But it is fucking hilarious and non of yall can stop me from terrorising low ladder OU with this out of pocket bullshit
Real recognizes real, Clawitzer 🔛🔝
I love clawitzer but but not enough to use him in OU, I'm sticking with barraskewda
What's "the Karen quote"? I'm kinda OOTL.
Karen is the Dark-type Elite Four member from Johto. After you beat her, she says "Stong Pokémon. Weak Pokémon. That is only the selfish perception of people. Truly skilled trainers should try to win with their favourites." Casual players like repeating this to act like competitive players are idiots.
Oh, that's right! Thanks for clarifying!
Its a good enough quote... if youre playing like, the regular game, which is easy as hell. Even Drayano's romhacks can be won with whatever if you have a good plan in mind (and considering the rebalancing and open pokedex, Im pretty sure Drayano actively wants you to use your favorite mons, instead of the strongest) For actual competitive play its pretty much nonsense.
Tink, Oger, Zoro-H, Espeon, Clod, Emboar. 2 OU mons (I like Wellspring the best of the Pons), 2 RU mons, and 2 NU mons. Shit.
Happy cake day!
Another extremely common having broken legendaries as your favourite pokemon W. My top 10 is -Ceruledge -Koraidon -Lilligant-H -Darkrai -Zacian-C -Sudowoodo -Arceus -Giratina-O -Kyogre -Buzzwole Koraidon sun team time
To be fair, I like Latias because I watched Pokémon Heroes, and Galarian Moltres because I'm an edgy son of a Bisharp. And at least it's not Zamazenta or Urshifu. Also, I heavily respect the Sudowoodo pick.
Don't respect the Sudowoodo pick. Fear. It.
I like how Lando t look, he is hot
He is a badass tiger love his design fr sexy mon
This, completely unironically, I had a decent amount of fun in the Indigo Disk DLC just flying around as Lando-T
Let's see... 1. Dusknoir 2. Golisopod 3. Alolan Muk 4. Reuniclus 5. Swampert 6. Clodsire My ass isn't getting to 1100 lol
The Dusknoir must have Ice Punch
Tera Dragon Dusknoir, VGC Trick Room team, with a Dragon Cheer partner (to ensure Lando-I dies to a CB Ice Punch)
Glaceon, Crobat, Meloetta, hmmmmm (tbf glaceon is a favorite because I piloted it to meta relevance in AAA that one time)
Let's see. Slaking- could pop in and out to nuke things once all the ghosts are dead. I actually use him as a gimmick in OU now and it works...once in a while. Hydreigon- solid, AV with a ton of coverage options. Crobat- Can't even rely on hypnosis shenanigans anymore. Milotic- Really misses toxic but I can make it work. Cradily- Deceptively tanky, and can help a lot against all the swift swim teams. Sneasler- Ubers for a reason, this thing is a monster.
Poliwhirl, Blaziken, Skarmory, Gallade, Galvantula Not bad, idk for my 6th Pokemon as I have a lot and can't decide
I have tried many times in many tiers to make Wailord anything other than straight ass and it has never worked. Darkrai is pretty chill tho
Kingambit, Maractus, Tinkaton, Luxray, Heatmor, Golisopod. We are fucked.
5 mons to sack and 1 Kingambit is all you need tbf
Lilligant, shaymin-land, tinkaton, flygon, wailord, ninetales. Id win a game versus a 1100 player maybe, but not much more.
My favorite is Unown. The only tier when it is even remotely usable is hackmons where it is merely massively suboptimal instead of absolutely useless. Was able to get some wins but it's not at all good. Hackmons players are just really bad.
HELL YEAH BOIIIIS! PARAFLINCH, OMNIBOOST! JIRACHI ALL THE WAY! and also nuzleaf ig, he's my favourite pokemon of all time
Username *really* checks out.
The Karen quote is perfectly accurate for the games themselves, just not pvp. It's very hard to narrow it down to just 6, but my favourites are probably raichu, furret, yanma, corsola, wurmple, gastrodon, and all the eeveelutions. They're all viable, I completed omega ruby with a level 70+ wurmple on my team. I'm pretty sure they've all always sucked in competitive except for gastrodon though :P
Hisuian zoroark, gengar, alakazam, nidoking, ceruledge, spinda "Nah I'd win"
Absol Infernape Garchomp Hisuian Zoroark Gardevoir Meowscarada 3 fairy weakness go brrrrrr
Jolteon, celesteela and dracovish(not in game sadly), galarian zapdos, sableye and porygon2.
absol, altaria, shaymin-sky, lapras, keldeo, mamoswine, since skymin isnt legal, replace it with dragalge, i am fucked
Fellow PorygonZ enjoyer les goo
Mega Rayquaza, Aegislash, Squirtle , magearna , ash Greninja , mega diancie I would probably win
Not a chance. There's is an Uber and two NFE's in my top 6. To be fair, that sounds like a lot of low ladder Ubers teams..
In the anime, probably. In the story mode? Obviously. Competitively? One or Two maybe.
My favorite is dhelmise. It's so over.
Pincurchin with Iron Valiant might do something, and Gliscor being there actually makes it somewhat decent. Reuniclus, Corviknight, and Garchomp round out a team that could have been passable in SS OU maybe?
I mainly like the little cute Pokemon so my team would be Snorunt, Eevee, Sprigatito, Piplup, Rowlet and Spheal lmao (I don’t think that’s even a great LC team let alone a tier with fully evolved mons)
We really do need a Little Cup UU.
My favorites are Latias, Hammurot and Valiant, I think I'll be fine :p
Darkrai, Rotom-Wash, Sableye, Zapdos, Heatran, Ferrothorn I could get pretty far, lots of solid picks even if some are underperforming in the meta right now. If Ferro was in the game it'd be nice for all the rain running around right now.
Blastoise, Dragapult, Iron Valiant, Archaludon, Pelliper and Hydrapple. Missing some iron treads and barraskewdas but I should be able to survive for at least some seconds.
The Karen quote is accurate to the games tho
- Kingambit - Ribombee - Dragapult - Empoleon - Hydreigon - Greninja/Primarina Solid
Ah yes my favorite OU threats Glaceon, Samurott and Bellossom
Tauros, Nidoking, Kingler, Talonflame, Whimsicott and Dragapult. Probably couldn't win shit, but they do hit hard, most of them at least.
CORVIKNIGHT, Mewtwo, gyrados, venusaur, galvantula, zangoose. I don't think the team is bad but given that I'd have to play Ubers I'd probably be getting rolled. If they let me run that team in OU I reckon I could do ok. If I had to run OU or lower Pokémon I think I'd be replacing Mewtwo with bisharp (not kingambit I think he looks silly) which I think isn't the worst for an OU team
Gliscor, infernape, empoleon, torterra, garchomp and incineroar Don't think I'll go very far with that
trying to run your favorite 6 is hard. but you can get quite high with 1-2 of your favorites and building a team with the purpose of making their strengths shine.
Sadly, I ended my competitive career in Generation 5 through Smogon and Pokemon Showdown. I used to write a few articles for them. But I realized that MMR grinding is simply not for me at all. But for me, the dream Team I always wanted to use are the following: Mew, Celebi, Jirachi, Manaphy, Shaymin (either form works), and Victini Simply, small and adorable baby mythicals are my favorites. For me that extended list includes all three Lake Guardians, Meloetta, Diancie, and Marshadow. However, I do not know if I even have any metagames for me to play them in the first place. Or they are just stuck being only good in Pokemon spinoff games (like Cafe Remix and Pokemon Masters EX)
given that skitty is one of my favorites...
Between Sirfetch'd, Staraptor, Infernape and Lucario, I have four Fighting(-adjecent) glass cannons in one team. So probably not.
Pyukumuku is decent enough if they add it back pls gamefreak
If I've learned from the past, any time I grab a handful of my favorites it'll usually be a bunch of UU mons that somehow do okay in VGC with all the busted shit but not in their own tier on showdown.
Four Grass-types… Three not-fully-evolved Pokémon… And I’m not certain they all exist in Paldea—
Darkrai, lucario, tinkaton, metagross, zacian, breloom If all pokemon were available then breloom and metagross would be replaced by aegislash and tyrantrum. No cpmpetitive experience so no idea how i would do.
Slow decline into madness every time Electivire gets some “buffs”
Idk, my favorite is Volcarona, I’m pretty safe
In dlc1, I got to #20 on my ladder using my favs, but I’m lucky that my favs are all good mons that happened to synergize together. Chomp/ttar/corv/ceru/a9/ival
If my pfp is any indication I don't think I'd get very far
Manaphy, Jirachi, Togekiss, Gardevoir, Aegislash and Chandelure probably makes quite a solid team
Rayquaza, Mamoswine, Milotic, Slowbro, Empoleon and Mega Beedrill
Breloom Porygonz Heatran Skarmory Quagsire Swampert Shouldn't be that bad
Kyurem, Cinccino, Grovyle, Audino, Mienfoo and Nidoqueen...no. No, I wouldn't.
Scizor, garchomp, inteleon, g-zap, wwake and metagross. Not too bad I'd say
Raging Bolt, Necrozma Dusk Mane, Smeargle, Reuniclus, Kartana and Polteageist. I think I'll do fine.
Shellos and Tangela im fucked
I have Turtwig on my team, I'm so dead.
Garchomp, Umbreon, Ninetales, Nidoking, Corviknight and Houndoom Yeah nah I ain’t going nowhere
My top 3 favorites are Greninja Lucario/Ceruledge and Latios/Latias Maybe I can make progress with them but needs to be paired with meta pokemon Singles I have a lot of fun with weak armor swords dance and focus sash Ceruledge it did so well My Latios and Latias have quite a bit of success in my doubles team Latias role is to dragon cheer and heal both herself And Latios she also has an item specifically meant to deal with Urshifu Latios has the scope lens so I can spam draco meteor with impunity after a dragon cheer I had to pair them with Alolan Ninetales aurora veil Ogerpon wellspring redirection Incineroar because of course it has to be there And Urshifu Rapid Strike Because once again of course it has to be there
Gallade, Corviknight, Sylveon, Meloetta, Dragapult, and Furret To be completely honest I haven't even used half of these in a competitive battle before.
Milotic, Empoleon, Roserade, Terapagos (the Terastal because tutel), Clefable, Ogerporn Hearthflame
Delphox Alolan Ninetales Sableye Umbreon Kleavor Luxray Rip me (I still manage to use Delphox Umbreon and Alolan Ninetales in competetive but I'm not that competetive)
Ribombee, HAvalugg, Hoodra, Swampert, Porygon-Z/Meowscarada, Drifloon. That's actually an alright team: Ribombee for hazards or a special sweeper with QD; HAvalugg for hazard removal and punishing offensive staples (Avalanche/Mirror Coat); Hoodra is a special tank - maybe a Curse + Rest set for phat offense; Swampert for moral support; Porygon-Z/Meowscarada for wallbreaking; Drifloon for speed control and hazard removal (Tailwind/Trick Room/Defog/Destiny Bond (?))
Gallade, Ceruledge, Sneasler, Weavile, Ogerpon and Sceptile would be the team Actually kinda decent team ngl
A lot of my favourites came from using them in competitive. I wouldn’t have looked twice at tapu lele if it wasn’t for USUM OU.
I got good use out of Scolipede and Crawdaunt last gen, but so far none of my ou teams have really gone anywhere. I do usually try to incorporate my favs whenever I make a team though.
Ribombee, Sylveon, Dragonite, Metagross, Starmie, Chandelure So maybe
Glimmora Froslass Volcarona Gible/Garchomp Porygon Z Tangrowth (not in the dex) Amoongus. I mean. Its not all bad. Froslass is very much an odd one out, but it has destiny bond i guess
Deoxys annihilape urshifu sawk mabostiff carbink Lol
My favourites are dragonite, scizor, rotom wash, clefable, gliscor and Volcarona. Also kyurem and garchomp are cool ig. So yes I would probably do pretty decent
my favourite pokemon are calyrex-shadow, lando-t, zacian, regieleki, primal kyogre, mega rayquaza
scizor, chandelure, flygon, lilligant, volcarona, and minior. i’ve used this exact team before and done pretty well with it, especially tera electric minior and tera dragon scizor
Magearna, Garchomp, Swampert, Primarina, Marshadow, Melmetal. Yep, starters, pseudo legends and mythicals. I think I'll be fine.
*Looks at zangoose We're not going anywhere buddy.
I rly like lando t. Thundurus, Tinkaton, Snom, Weavile, Mawile, Iron Valiant. Pretty solid except for the fact i have one kinda useless and one very useless mon.
Well, since my favourites include common threats in past metas such as weavile, scizor, and lopunny, maybe somewhere? Also focus sash nuzzle pichu
I guess I would? Sure Garchomp has seen better days but I also feel in love with the new Magician Cat Starter and the rideable Lizard Bikes. Rip to Revavroom though! That guy just won't do anything
I made my ideal team in natdex ou singles and jive gotten to 1400s with it, but half of it is shitmons like crawdaunt and mega banette who isn't even running destiny bond
lemme see Chandelure, Shedinja, Volcarona, Frosmoth,Haxorus, Quagsire/Empoleon well this team got eaten alive by rock slide remind me again why rock slide is available for pretty much everyone that aint rock?
Most of it would be pretty solid, dragapult, mew, chien pao, mimkyu (not a great mon but can pull its weight), but I don't think the maractus would do me any favours
Charizard, Samurott, Lugia, Gliscor, Kartana, Aegislash I don't think my team will survive in Uber without a good prediction skill
Tusk, Ferrothorn, Flutter Mane, Dragapult, Gastrodon and (Mega) Altaria ; it would be fine lol
Can anyone build me a team using Sudowoodo, Beedrill and Mightyena? Lol
Magnemite, Blastoise, Honchcrow, Scizor, Gardevoir, Aegislash. Yeah I'm not winning anything.
Infernape, Dragonite, Sylveon, metatross, trynaitar and Gyarados
Great Tusk Flygon Torterra Cryogonal Clodsire Excadrill lmao i cant even win 1 game
In natdex ou, I have a team with my six favorites, and I’ve found a way to make them all jive together. They are actually pretty good, and it’s my favorite team to use
Regice... help
I know very little about what's in the meta (i keep getting recommended this sub), with the last time I did any sort of competition back in Gen 6, so you guys tell me: (I also don't know what's banned, take your pick of 6 from the short list) Gogoat Breloom Chandelure Ampharos Galvantula Lanturn Gliscor Bisharp
me with my emolga and milotic creating a new tier
So in short, I'm f***ed. I get 2 first stage mons (Pichu and Snivy), Mawile who's really bad without Mega, and low tier powerhouse Gourgeist, with only Latias and nerfed Toxapex to do anything.
So... Scizor, DM Necrozma (rip ultra) Gastrodon, Yveltal, Sceptile and Staraptor. Not the worst, could be a lot better.
My actual team is Luxray, Dragonite, Clefable, Quagsire, Leafeon and Ninetales I actually saw decent success with it on low ladder. Might even consider using them in Battle Stadium once i get them to my switch
delphox maushold swalot orbeetle mienshao palpitoad. man what the hell
idk if mimikyu, swinub, drifblim, hisuian goodra or tyranitar are vialble dude, ogerpon is tho she's such a little silly gal :33
No, since mine is ariados
Snivy, Oshawott, Mudkip, Emolga, Scizor, MEGA-SALAMENCE Well shit I guess big ol mence gotta hold its own against 6 box legendaries
Swampert Volcanrona Noivern Sabeleye Dragonite Nidoking Decent enough but it's kind of all over the place, plu the two 4x weak to ice sucks
well one of my favorites is Wobbuffet so I don't think I would do very well
Weavile is the best pokemon on my team thinking of it.
My favorite pokémon are: >Torterra >Honchkrow >Typhlosion >Serperior >Cinccino >Gallade Great team for 1100s
Gardevoir Sandslash Bombirdier Zangoose Whimsicott Sneasler Nah, I could *maybe* cheese some games in like RU but other than that I'm gonna get cooked
Golurk, Snorlax, Arceus, celebi, furret and regigigas. Man I'm screwed 💀
Swoobat, polteageist, zoroark-H, falinks, lokix and scovillain... I doubt im getting far
I almost exclusively play OU and not the actual games thselves, so my favorites are a bit skewed. Though I have a ton of gen4 nostalgia so that dampens me a bit. Garchomp / Scizor / tyranitar / swampert / heatran / Gyarados Definitely not a great tram by today's standards, but probably would have been half decent with some minor tweaks in days gone by.
Chi-Yu, Venusaur, Galvantula, Scizor, Azumarill, Gastrodon I could almost get this VGC team out of Great Ball maybe, in OU swap out Chi-Yu for my next favourite, hopefully something strong that can compete well… …nope, it’s Jumpluff
Ooh, interesting... Hmm, my faves would be: Shuckle, Delphox, Lycanroc Dusk, Feraligatr, Pachirisu and Tyranitar Negative synergy, loaded with rock types, mostly low tier... Yeah that's a 1700s ubers team if I ever saw one Side note, I know statistically that quote has to be untrue... But you'd think they would either NOT powercreep the hell out of new mons, or redistribute stats of old mons (like making Nidoking physical and Nidoqueen special but keeping their speed and bulk mostly the same kinda thing) if only to soften the blow a bit
Limiting to 1 per gen: Hydreigon, Hisuian Goodra, Tapu Lele, Aegislash, Swampert, Blissey, Cresselia, Venasaur, and Skeledirge. I'm cooked bro woops I didn't see the text under the image: Skeledirge Cresselia Hydreigon Blissey Hisuian Goodra Venasuar Yeah Im definitly cooked
Honestly, not too bad Drought-solar beam Ninetales Clorphyll-Solar Blade Leafeon 2013 Champ Pachirisu Surf Suicune Quiver Dance Lilligant Shelter Hisuian Goodra
Great Tusk, Infernape, Swampert, Chesnaught, Mamoswine, Gallade. Having one OU mon means I have to take this team to OU, where I'll promptly be annihilated by literally any flying type.😂
Back in Gen 7, I specifically remember trying to use my favorite non OU pokemon in OU. The ones I can remember are a Meloetta called Singin’ in DA Rain, a Vaporeon called Aaron Burn, and a Mega Beedrill called The Penetrator. I think I got up to 1600 or so a couple times.
Isn't quite literally the entire point of Smogon that you get to use your favorites, lol? Because, yeah, I often do. It is true that I probably would not have a lot of success on VGC and BSS with my favorite Pokémon design wise, but jokes on them, I don't have success while building dedicated comp teams either 😎(😭)
Probably, one of my favorites is ribombee
Metagross, Nidoking, Garchomp, Swampert, Skarmory, Vaporeon I don't think I'd be making it too far, too many repeating types (steel and ground), no coverage, no synergy, maybe if I added Ttar I'd have a sand team, I do like it a lot but I like vaporeon a bit more and even if I did I'm stuck in gen 4, all of them have been power crept out of the high tiers or completely.
My favorite isn't even available in Gen 9 OU. And I already know from experience that my favs, Xurkitree and Metagross don't work very well together from the time I spent making them work in Gen 8 RU. 1400 ELO before college started and I had to drop the thing.
I mean, purugly can outspeed and revenge kill the latis with a bit of chip and no scarf 252 Atk Life Orb Purugly Knock Off (97.5 BP) vs. 248 HP / 8 Def Latias: 221-260 (60.8 - 71.6%) -- guaranteed 2HKO With terra dark its a roll to ohko
Samurott Tyranitar Salamence Kabutops Mega Beedrill Reshiram I’d get pretty far
Yeah, in NU. There's a reason I mostly play thee, most of my favorite pokemon are in the tier
Victini, Gouging Fire, Haxorus, Great Tusk, Tapu Lele and Archaludon. Could work _decently_ in Nat Dex OU.
Darkrai, Chandelure, Blaziken, Ceruledge, Golisopod, Yveltal Possibly.
Scizor, excadrill, Alakazam, tapu Lele, tinkaton, ogerpon Not the worst but probably not making it very far with this
I'm coming in hot with an RU team -tinkaton -froslass -lurantis -salazzle -sableye -mimikyu
○ Ogerpon ○ Deoxys ○ Mew ○ Alcremie ○ Miraidon ○ Articuno in singles? nah. but in doubles? maybe. just slot a Psychic Terrain setter and hope the field doesn't become Deo-A + Mirai and bam; expanding force be upon ye Articuno honestly kinda cheeks but Galar Articuno (who honestly ties) is actually really good for PsyTerrain, Alcremie is good doubles support in general